I can't find any info on it. Perhaps this is another method they use to multiply the money supply by 10 as well. Everything these banking scoundrels touch turns into fiat money, why not our cheques as well.

Good question Dee35ann. Does anyone have an informed answer for her?

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I think it depends on the bank. Like you, DO.g's, I tried to find info when deeann posted her question earlier and didn't really find anything definitive that I thought would answer her very good question.

My husband and I maintain separate checking accounts. I get a statement each month from my bank that only shows the check number, amount of the check, and the date the check cleared. My husband, on the other hand, receives his bank statement WITH the cancelled checks in the envelope, like all banks used to do.

My sister and I have a joint account at still another bank. That bank sends out the account statement with copies of the checks written and the deposits made.

Three different procedures from three different banks...go figure.

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Like Catherine, I get a statement each month from my bank that only shows the check number, amount of the check, and the date the check cleared. I miss having my checks to look back on--to see just where the money went.

There is no way to prove anything with the system I am in now. And it really irks me!

Yeah and they also have copy of your signature to use as well. Is that something that just might get thrown out with the trash or used against you someday? Cheques will now probably have a UPC code on them so they can be traced easier- by the banks of course, not by you.

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I'm thinking of sending a bill to my bank and the Federal Reserve to
recover the costs of having my checks printed. I do pay for this service
and they are my personal property. Don't have any idea of what hornets
nest I will stir up, but if there is a response, it may prove interesting.

If I get a response I will let you all know.

I don't think Homeland Security or the Bush Hogs has passed a bill
allowing anyone to fool with my personal belongings as long as I'm in compliance with the law. If they have passed new laws --- don't I have a right to know????????????????

I'm guessing that the new checks will have some sort of strip or metal device that scan be scanned by banks and so on. They get people's signatures all then time, when they use/sign via those machines in Walmart and etc.

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If this works and they start sending your checks back, even if they don't do that for other people, you will have scored a big step forward.

And if they do, I am sending the same to my bank--although they would use the excuse I have a 'limited' account. They have already let me know numerous times they are allowing me to bank there as a 'special courtesy' to me because I have been with them forever.

'America' does not like 'financially challenged' people.

Hope you get good results deeann. It would be great to score one for the people for a change.

And congratulations on actually doing something rather than simply complaining about what is happening in this country. Wish there were more deeanns around!

I really don't expect them to send me my checks because they are not receiving them from the sources they are being sent too.

However I am following up and making a same request from all who receives a check from me.

Really - how hard would it be for any outfit to place my checks in the same envelope I receive my statement in? They can't use a money saving excuse because no added postage is needed to send a check along with a statement.